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St. Paul Public Library
Volume I
JUNE, 1929
Number 4
CONTINUING EDUCATION
SCHOOLS, colleges and universities this month will turn out
into the world hundreds of thousands of boys and girls, young
men and young women many of whom think their schooling
is over because there will be no more school - days. Fortunately among these are tens of thousands who realize that their schooling
has just begun, that what education they have received is only a foundation. Fortunately, too, the number who leave our schools and colleges
with this realization is every year increasing. And it is to this group,
probably, to which is attributable the steady increase in the proportion
of non-fiction reading as compared with the reading of fiction which has
been generally observed in the public libraries of the country in recent
years. It is a safe assumption, too, based on careful analysis in the past
that it is from this group that will come most of the leaders of the country
in the hundreds of activities i

St. Paul Public Library
Volume I
JUNE, 1929
Number 4
CONTINUING EDUCATION
SCHOOLS, colleges and universities this month will turn out
into the world hundreds of thousands of boys and girls, young
men and young women many of whom think their schooling
is over because there will be no more school - days. Fortunately among these are tens of thousands who realize that their schooling
has just begun, that what education they have received is only a foundation. Fortunately, too, the number who leave our schools and colleges
with this realization is every year increasing. And it is to this group,
probably, to which is attributable the steady increase in the proportion
of non-fiction reading as compared with the reading of fiction which has
been generally observed in the public libraries of the country in recent
years. It is a safe assumption, too, based on careful analysis in the past
that it is from this group that will come most of the leaders of the country
in the hundreds of activities i